Sometimes, it feels like I’m drifting along, which my little mind associates with “wasting life.” Other times, it makes total sense. I really didn’t know what all was going in the past either; I just thought I did.

When I came upon this tree awhile back, I couldn’t help but stop and take a few pictures of it. With its bare limbs raised in the air, and almost everything around it dead as well, it’s the perfect image of our repetitive, habit driven minds. Chinese Zen Master Sengcan, in his great dharma poem […]

  The world of appearances is filled with the three poisons of greed, anger and ignorance. Sometimes, our closest people have betrayed us. The world as it appears in conditioned reality and ordinary life, is filled with unpredictable and often unexplainable occurrences that definitely go against how we wish things would be. Because of our […]

Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today. ~ By Thich Nhat Hanh I disagree with this statement. It panders too much to the stickiness that lies behind hope. The longing for a future that may […]

I recently ran across Rick Bateman’s insightful article  delving into some intriguing commonalities between the Buddha and author, Ayn Rand. Having only made it half way through Atlas Shrugged without dissolving into a coursing fit of riotous indignation, I applaud Bateman’s peace around Rand’s self-focused literature. I must say my attempt at the novel was […]

People, myself included, seem to do everything in our power to resist liberation. It’s like we are addicted to punishing ourselves.